brooklyn13, Greg Palast: What's Keeping You Here, Punk?
Wednesday, 4 July 2007, 10:23 am Opinion: Greg Palast
What's Keeping You Here, Punk?
By Greg Palast July 3, 2007
Another Fourth on the North Fork. Time to pick the new Strawberry Queen, shine the fire trucks, put out the collection jar for the un-insured and beat up the bald guy from out of town.
I think it's only game to allow my critics their say on my home page.
This editorial is re-printed in my local penny-saver...
[Regarding] gonzo "journalist" - and I use that term lightly - Greg Palast. Mr. Palast, as you may recall, is the former summer resident who reached The New York Times' non-fiction best-seller list with not one but two books, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and "Armed Madhouse," which was published earlier this year. And I quote (from "Armed Madhouse"): - '[The North Fork], if you look at a map, is situated at the ass end of nowhere. We are known hereabouts for our Strawberry Festival and fire truck parade. According to the census, this tiny place is made up almost entirely of inbred farmers, real estate speculators and volunteer firemen.' - 'At one end of town is the 'Brand Names Outlet Mall' and the waterslide park. At the other end, there's a ferry-boat that takes those who feel lucky to the Mashantucket Pequot tribe's casino in Connecticut. And in between, there's Main Street, where we hold the Strawberry Festival.' - 'The [Festival] is a quaint and annoying white-folks' ritual, an opportunity for backstabbing, petty infighting and all-American small-mindedness. But that's another story altogether.' In the same chapter with these sweet nothings, Mr. Palast goes tooth and nail after "Mayor Josh" … for his 2005 Homeland Security alert at Orient Point, and I regret to report that I agree with him that Josh went a little overboard on that one. [Palast's note to readers: Mayor Josh had SUVs mounted with machine guns to prevent a sea-borne invasion by Al Qaeda.] But considering just about everything else [Palast] has to say about the North Fork, I have this question for Greg Palast: What's keeping you here, punk?"
Answer: I feel safe from Al Qaeda.
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"As I said, I have no idea if he continues to lie for the sake of an entertaining story. But it's irrefutable that the piece he reproduced that I posted was rife with untruths, which I pointed out. And there are others in the book, but why should I bother to point them out when you're predisposed to disbelieve me about them?"
I can't find "the piece he reproduced that I posted was rife with untruths" that piece you allegedly posted. The link to it, please?
And again, i'm not predisposed to disbelieve you about anything. I take everything you post and weigh it up against all else i can find.
brooklyn13, Again your "ahem" was as apt as your using American Indians and Australian Aborigines and China's Uyghurs as justification for the worst of Zionist Israeli's overreaction to the Hamas terrorist act of October 7, 2023.
"The ahem was apt and also obvious. For one example, your posting of pieces written on Al Jazeera about the Gaza situation. Here we have a media organization that's been banned in most Middle Eastern countries for its dishonesty and attempts to foment violence and I posted links about it a few times. But, since they were printing counterpoints to what you consider to be Zionist b.s., you found them totally credible and spread their word."
Fuck you. Al Jazeera was not banned for it's dishonesty. It has voiced opinions which differ from other Arab countries
brooklyn13, I don't judge an outfit's credibility by what some others say about them. Why does Trump label the American media as "fake press." You are as much a water glider as conix.
Q&A: Why some countries are trying to muzzle Al-Jazeera [...] Since its inception in 1996, the station has been one of the few to present views that contrast with traditional, state-censored Arabic press. It was the first Arab-owned news outlet to host Israeli officials and commentators, which some analysts note coincided with Qatar’s ties with Israel at the time.
While Al-Jazeera maintains that it operates independently of the Qatari government, critics say its coverage reflects Qatar’s foreign policy.
Al-Jazeera has said the measures to close it in Saudi Arabia are unjustified, and that Israel’s accusations of unfair coverage are “odd” and unsubstantiated. [...] Reporters Without Borders says Al-Jazeera has become a “collateral victim” in the diplomatic offensive against Qatar. The group says closing the station’s bureaus is a political decision that amounts to censorship of a TV broadcaster.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has criticized Israel’s moves against Al-Jazeera. The CPJ said closing Al-Jazeera’s offices “would put Israel firmly in the camp of some of the region’s worst enemies of press freedom.” It called on Israel to allow all journalists to report freely from the country and areas it occupies. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174770504
Read it again without dismissing all it says just because of the predispositions you hso preciously hold.
And, people post from all sorts of sources. You are the only fucking one i've seen make the statement that those people have to believe every word the site says.
Finally., y our labeling me as an honorary MAGA is as stupidly ridiculous as your attempts to justify Israel's war against Palestinians.
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